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It was not a sunny morning.

The thousands-square-meter laboratory, brightened by lights, did not appear chaotic due to inspection, but remained orderly.

Except for a few leading professors, most engineers still perform their duties and are focused on work.

As early as the establishment of the laboratory, the recruitment threshold was set very high. Basically, those with master's degrees, Ph.D.s, and professors have good overall quality.

What's more important is that there are relatively few administrative staff, and they basically follow the inspection group and accept arrangements at any time.

It gave the inspection team a good feeling.

Although Fang Nian knew that he had already inspected it once, he still quickly picked out a few key points.

"The development and testing team for the open market and the stable performance team for manufacturers don't have many outstanding features. They are just catching up step by step and narrowing the gap..."

"Energy is mainly concentrated on the pre-research team."

"..."

"This is a new project of the laboratory's pre-research team. The system integrates artificial intelligence and computer vision. It has been supported by the establishment of a cross-research center at the Frontier Institute in cooperation with major famous universities in Shanghai..."

"..."

"This is another R&D team for functional modules, mainly focusing on biometric research..."

"..."

"This is the entire workflow of Nuwa Laboratory:

The pre-research team conducts a large amount of forward-looking research and development work, and some suitable functional features are handed over to the development and testing team for further advancement after they are relatively mature, and then pushed to the open market, and finally integrated into the stable version..."

"..."

While Fang Nian was talking eloquently, the inspection team did not speak.

Including leader Ping who proactively suggested taking another look.

After Fang Nian concluded his summary, Miao Wei said thoughtfully: "Mr. Fang, I heard that your Nuwa laboratory has consumed hundreds of millions of R&D funds within four months of its launch?"

"We are still in a serious state of being unable to make ends meet. What supports you in continuing to invest in research and development?"

Miao Wei's tone was calm, but his meaning could be said to be very sharp.

Even if you just analyze the surface, you can still hear a little bit of doubt.

What goals does Nuwa Laboratory operate with?

The reason for this inability to make ends meet is obviously the huge expenditure on forward-looking research and development work.

Research and development work in no-man's land is not necessarily effective, and the more realistic result is that it will all come to nothing.

Why not delve deeper into the detailed modules that are obviously lagging behind?

If analyzed in depth, Miao Wei's words can be understood as: Does Frontier have a huge other purpose? Has it made some special ideas?

Facing Miao Wei's dull gaze, Fang Nian smiled slightly: "It's business interests."

"I think the Miao Department may have misunderstood our Frontier. Frontier is just a commercial company, and only by being ahead of its peers can we have something to eat."

At the end, Fang Young added with a smile: "Recent facts have proven that the commercial value brought by leading is immeasurable. With a negligible NYun, the number of global users of the Nuwa system quickly exceeded 5 million, and it reached 6 million last night."

After listening to Fang Nian's words, Miao Wei didn't have much emotion and said quietly: "Yeah."

Seeing this, Fang Nian suddenly laughed twice: "It seems that Miao Bu has misunderstood me."

"How do you say that?" Miao Wei put his hands behind his back and glanced at Fang Nian, noncommittal.

Fang Nian said politely: "Whether Nuwa Laboratory or Frontier, they have no vision of benefiting the country and the people. To put it more bluntly, Frontier has never thought of becoming a so-called conscientious enterprise;

I personally have never thought about becoming a conscientious entrepreneur. Businessmen have valued profits since ancient times. I'm sorry, but I am not that exception."

The atmosphere at the scene seemed to solidify all of a sudden.

The smiles on many people's faces simply disappeared.

Especially Lu Weiyu's brows were furrowed.

Even Shi Xinrong, who was surprised by Fang Nian's true identity, also frowned.

There were only one or two people including Leader Ping whose expressions didn't change.

Miao Wei was shocked, looked at Fang Nian with a focused gaze, and said word by word: "I have been taught!"

"I speak frankly, please forgive Miao Bu." Fang Nian bowed politely.

Miao Weilian said: "Mr. Fang is very polite."

"..."

At this time, Leader Ping made a gesture and said kindly: "Mr. Fang, why don't you invite us to sit in the conference room?"

Fang Nian followed the good advice and smiled slightly: "Dear leaders, please come this way."

"..."

There are far fewer people able to enter the conference room.

Not even Shi Xinrong got involved.

There were only Fang Nian, Guan Qiuhe, and Lu Weiyu on the frontier side, and the inspection leaders were only Miao Wei, Leader Ping and a few others.

After we sat down separately, tea was quickly served, needless to say the complicated process involved.

After the door of the conference room was closed, Miao Wei was the first to speak: "Mr. Fang really taught me a good lesson. He is indeed young and promising!"

"Indeed, there has never been any publicity or even expectation from the national level that private enterprises will develop in a direction that benefits the country and the people. It only emphasizes that enterprises can take into account a certain amount of social responsibility in the process of development."

"Mr. Fang, you are very good!"

At the end of the sentence, Miao Wei's tone was full of praise and even appreciation.

They have been in high positions for a long time and are easy to listen to.

Everyone can't wait to die if they hear about it in the morning.

I wish I could have 10,000 names on my head, such as a national enterprise, a national enterprise, a conscientious enterprise, an excellent enterprise, an honorary enterprise...

In fact, he is only thinking about how to get the maximum benefit.

Whether it is consumers or various project subsidies.

Big package.

Fang Nian's attitude is very clear. Commercial companies only make money, and Frontier will never give itself any name.

Although it seems that Frontier is worried about developing domestic basic technology, it is for the greater good.

Fang Nian expressed this point very frankly in his words.

No reckless investment.

Ideals are ideals, but they will not delay making money.

If you don’t have money to continue your development, how many cents per pound would you like?

Facing Miao Wei's approving gaze, Fang Nian smiled and said, "I don't dare to be Miao Wei's compliment."

Not much explanation was given.

Too many explanations would be unsightly.

Fang Nian had already planned to hug him, and it was not just a matter of catering to the inspection.

He needs to establish himself as an honest, responsible, down-to-earth, realistic and real person, so as to gradually gain more favor.

But all this must be shown without any purpose.

It was quite difficult in the first place, but we encountered Miao Wei’s ‘making things difficult’ intentionally or unintentionally.

Fang Nian also had to clarify some things:

Nuwa Laboratory does so many things, and the central idea is to make profits.

Like all normal business companies, it is just for business interests and does not have any lofty ideals.

Anyway...

Now we are getting further and further away from Fang Nian’s expectations.

After a brief chat, Miao Wei changed the topic: "The ministry is considering developing a number of nuclear high-tech projects recently, and the Nuwa system is also among them. I wonder what the Nuwa laboratory is thinking?"

Hearing this, Fang Nian thought for a moment: "Miao Bu, to be honest, the Nuwa system does not need these, but..."

“I don’t resist being included in the Nuclear High-Tech Foundation project.”

Seeing this, Miao Wei suddenly stretched out his hand and tapped Fang Nian a few times: "Mr. Fang, if I didn't know your identity, age and experience, I would have suspected that you have an old soul in your body. Are you a little too cautious?"

"Maybe because I have read too many books and understand some superficial principles, I think that in order to gain something, I need to pay something." Fang Nian answered honestly.

Lu Wei said: "..."
To be continued...